"What's he got to say, like ?" The superintendent looked at Harborough and nodded.

And Harborough took that nod at its true meaning, and he spoke--readily.
"This!" he said, turning to the new-comers, and finally addressing himself to Mallalieu.

"And it's what I've already said to the superintendent here.

I know nothing about what's happened to Kitely.

I know no more of his murder than you do--not so much, I should say--for I know naught at all beyond what I've been told.